On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:03:15PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote:
> At 11:48 08/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >Hello all -
> >
> >I'm trying to add a drive to a Redhat 7.2 system.  The system recognizes 
> >it as hdb.  I've run FDISK on it.  Here's the output:
> >
> >Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 959 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> >/dev/hdb1             1       959   1933312+  83  Linux
> >
> >My problem is that I cannot mount it.  I get an error about fstab or mtab 
> >not having an entry.  I'm sort of a newbie at Linux...
> 
> Have you made a filesystem on /dev/hdb1 yet??
> "mke2fs /dev/hdb1"

And if you want it to be an EXT3 filesystem (the RH72 default) add the 
-j option to the mke2fs commandline.

> Then
> "mount /dev/hdb1  <mountpoint>"
> where <mountpoint> is a directory you made to mount the filesystem on.
> 

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